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Events in the year 1907 in Ireland.

Events

  • 2 January – A new system of rail cars running from Dublin Amiens Street station to Howth was introduced.
  • 5 January – The first motor show under the auspices of the Irish Automobile Club opened at the Royal Dublin Society.
  • 6 January – The Sunday provisions of the new Licensing Act come into operation in Dublin and four other cities. Sunday opening hours would be from 2pm to 5pm.
  • 26 January – The first performance of J. M. Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin triggered a week of rioting.
  • 4 May – The Irish International Exhibition opened in Dublin.
  • 7 May – Augustine Birrell introduced the Irish Council Bill; it was rejected by a Nationalist convention on 21 May and dropped by the government on 3 June.
  • 6 July – The Crown Jewels of Ireland, valued at £50,000, were stolen from a safe in Dublin Castle.
  • 10&ndash;11 July – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra made a state visit to attend the Irish International Exhibition in Dublin.
  • 26 July – A large rally was held in Belfast City Hall in support of the continuing Dockers and Carters strike.
  • 4 September – An Irish Parliamentary Party meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin was disrupted by Sinn Féin who held a demonstration outside.
  • 17 October – The Marconi transatlantic wireless telegraphy service between Galway and Canada was opened. Messages were exchanged without a hitch.
  • 9 November – The Irish International Exhibition ended after six months. An estimated 2.75 million people visited it, including a large number from abroad.
  • Publication of County Cork-born retired Chicago chief of police Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland.

Sport

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Association football

  • ; International
  • : 16 February – England 1–0 Ireland (in Liverpool)
  • : 23 February – Ireland 2–3 Wales (in Belfast)
  • 31 January – Timothy Eaton, businessman, founded Eaton's department store in Canada (born 1834).
  • 11 February – William Howard Russell, journalist (born 1821).
  • 16 March – John O'Leary, Irish poet and Fenian (born 1830).
  • 9 April – Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (born 1853).
  • 1 May – John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist, and historian of economic thought (born 1823).
  • 10 June – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (born 1822).
  • 8 July – John Horgan, politician and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (born 1834).
  • 3 August – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor (born 1848).
  • 7 August – James Brenan, artist (born 1837).
  • 13 August – George Charlemont, former Gaelic footballer (born 1873).
  • 17 November – Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in Canadian Arctic Archipelago (born 1819).
  • 17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (born 1824).
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  • :* Robert Cain, brewer and businessman (born 1826).
  • :* Denis Kearney, politician in America (born 1847).

See also

  • 1922 in Scotland
  • 1922 in Wales

References